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Ah man, I was typing a reply in the metro but there Inksb just threw all of this on the board :P
Well let me corroborate that
A TALE OF TWO SISTERS is excellent and is a must see horror drama.
Anything by Park Chan Wook is great, but let me put an emphasis on seeing THE HANDMAIDEN, it's an amazing erotico period drama mystery, twisted and beautiful.
TRAIN TO BUSAN is a great zombie movie, fun, lots of action, great effects, you'll have fun.
THE WAILING is very very good, but also tough to wrap your mind around. it's funny, it's creepy, it's intense. one of the best modern exorcism sequence. You'll have a lot of questions at the end of this one, cause there's a lot of symbolism and the director doesn't spoon feed.

I would add the slow burn drama THE BURNING, which shares themes of rich vs poor that you saw in parasite. it's slow, it's a bit hypnotic, I kept thinking about it after seeing it in theater.

also, all these previous movies are recent, but let me recommend the 80's movie SUDDENLY IN THE DARK. It's about a couple who takes on a handmaiden to help around the house. the young woman is he daughter of a shaman priestess. As time goes by, the housewife starts to get suspicious, possibly paranoid, that her handmaiden is trying to usurp her place in the house. It was released fairly recently on Blu Ray by Mondo Macabro.

I Saw The Devil is effed up. Really effed up.

That is all!

Oh and Memories of Murder is great. On the back of Parasite's success, it's going to get a cinema re-release. Nice.

NathanLurker wrote: ↑Fri Nov 22, 2019 5:20 pm I would add the slow burn drama THE BURNING, which shares themes of rich vs poor that you saw in parasite. it's slow, it's a bit hypnotic, I kept thinking about it after seeing it in theater.

also, all these previous movies are recent, but let me recommend the 80's movie SUDDENLY IN THE DARK. It's about a couple who takes on a handmaiden to help around the house. the young woman is he daughter of a shaman priestess. As time goes by, the housewife starts to get suspicious, possibly paranoid, that her handmaiden is trying to usurp her place in the house. It was released fairly recently on Blu Ray by Mondo Macabro.

I forgot all about The Burning, I heard great things.

I actually own that Mondo Macabro bluray of Suddenly In The Dark but I haven't had a chance to watch it. I'm honestly way behind in my Korean cinema viewing. I was into it quite a bit for a few years.

Have you watched Park's series The Little Drummer Girl? I started the first episode but the wife said she didn't want to watch it so it went into the pile of stuff I watch on my own, which is my time that TV/movies/videogames fight for. I'll get to it eventually.

ScoJo wrote: ↑Fri Nov 22, 2019 5:52 pm Oh and Memories of Murder is great. On the back of Parasite's success, it's going to get a cinema re-release. Nice.

And finally a bluray in the US! There was a recent 4K scan done in France for a new bluray but I've read they pushed the color timing towards blue for some reason. I'm hoping the new US blu uses the fresh scan but the correct color timing. I would assume with Parasite's success the director will probably have some sort of say in the bluray.

@inksb : I have not seen The Little Drummer Girl, I didn't know about it. I will watch it, it's on Prime.

I asked and STBC delivered. You guys....

NathanLurker wrote: ↑Fri Nov 22, 2019 6:29 pm @inksb : I have not seen The Little Drummer Girl, I didn't know about it. I will watch it, it's on Prime.

Park doing LeCarre??????

Yes please!

Between nasty and rediculous.

in 4K

Bezulsqy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 6:20 pm in 4K

Machete attack in Birmingham Star City cinema last night. Horrific business

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest ... 0-20946090

This is one of my locals. It's the cheapest place to see current films, and its a shit show consequently- worst aud behaviour, bad projection and sound, and underpaid staff who couldnt give two fucks: it famously takes them like 15min to make a coffee with a huge queue forming. We find it hysterical.

My neice worked there and said it was the worst. When it first opened like 10 years ago(?) it was red-carpetted with A-listers (I think Clooney was there) but it very quickly got the nickname 'Stab City'.

This sounds like youth gang rivalry- huge deal in Birmingham. Like so many cities. Ugly. At least this time it sounds like nobody was actually seriously injured.

On topic- here's a really grim story about that place, from a few years ago when my neice was working there.

A guy dropped his phone behind his seat, and got down on his hands and knees looking for it- but he accidentally triggered the recliner seat and it crushed his head. They tried to help him but he ultimately died. They had to close and overhaul the whole recliner seating system. Bloody nightmare.

Christ!

My housemate at uni worked in the Cornerhouse in Manchester and she got a call from a lady looking for her husband, the ambulance had called her box office line when he died in the cinema - but he’d died in the porn theatre next door so she had to explain to this poor lady where her husband was

Saw the Good Liar yesterday. How I longed for a cyborg to run in with an arm off and a fried CPU, butchering the entire cast with lighting speed and running off with the nazi hoard or whatever the fucking film was about. The cyborg could go and live in seclusion and use his skills to harvest fruit, blissful of the notion of a hard earned payday because he’s pre programmed to kill, but a short circuit allows him to be appropriately delicate with strawberries.

I finally watched this, it's been on my computer for 2 years. It is a very well made film with some 'interesting' performances from Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal. I'd probably say this is the last film in Bong Joon Ho's career that you need to see. That's not a slight on the film, it's just the most straightfoward and least interesting of his body of work and that's saying a bit about a film that centers on a small Korean farm girl who chase's her pet genetically engineered hippo/pig around the globe trying to rescue it from an awful corporation.

Stop me if I have already bollocked on about this amazing film... but did I mention that LUZ is one of the most impressive and flat out bonkers 'horror/possession' art experiences that I've had for a good while? Probably there is nothing quite like it, though maybe if you think Zulawski's 'Possession' via Michael Haneke, Berberian Sound Studio or Roy Andersson- and that's only very broadly in the ball park?? I absolutely loved this film. The acting and style of the piece are really quite bizarre and hypnotic, but on the very edge of realism, it looks fantastic (shot clinically in 16mm Cinemascope) and the very specific (and mind boggling) use of sound, different languages and 'voice overs' (for want of better phrase) are astonishing. Once you click into what this film is doing, it's a bit like Pontypool - many many layers to the onion, metaphorically, whilst still working brilliantly as a genre piece.


Incredibly, this relatively brisk (70min) film was made as a graduation student piece by first time German director Tilman Singer... if you get a chance to see it, let that sink in. Nothing short of breathtaking, to be this assured and peculiar straight out of the gate as a young filmmaker . I cannot wait for whatever he does next.

The less you know about this one going in the better your experience will be, trust me.

(Just having a look around, there's currently only a German bluray out there.... I might be able to *sharify* if you are intrigued... PM me ;-)

Dude, I saw LUZ at Fantasia 2018, it was probably our (me and my gf) favorite of the year. The movie is with Yellow Tail Pictures, ehich I follow on instagram, waiting for an annoucement regarsing a blu ray release. I have an all region player so I guess I could import that german blu (which I didnt know about before you mentioned it) though. I actually had an email exchange with Tilman Singer asking if the great soundtrack would get a vinyl release and he said he was hopefull it was gonna happen with a North American Blu as well. Maybe I should bug him again about it to see if this is still a plan they want to do.

Anyway, great mesmerizing movie.

NathanLurker wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2019 4:54 pm Dude, I saw LUZ at Fantasia 2018, it was probably our (me and my gf) favorite of the year. The movie is with Yellow Tail Pictures, ehich I follow on instagram, waiting for an annoucement regarsing a blu ray release. I have an all region player so I guess I could import that german blu (which I didnt know about before you mentioned it) though. I actually had an email exchange with Tilman Singer asking if the great soundtrack would get a vinyl release and he said he was hopefull it was gonna happen with a North American Blu as well. Maybe I should bug him again about it to see if this is still a plan they want to do.

Anyway, great mesmerizing movie.

YES!

TO ALL THIS!

(Fwiw, I AM LOCKED INTO A CAPS LOCK SITUATION HERE, REGARDING ALL REPLIES TO YOUR POSTS. ALL APOLOGIES)

ScoJo wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2019 1:35 pm Stop me if I have already bollocked on about this amazing film... but did I mention that LUZ is one of the most impressive and flat out bonkers 'horror/possession' art experiences that I've had for a good while? Probably there is nothing quite like it, though maybe if you think Zulawski's 'Possession' via Michael Haneke, Berberian Sound Studio or Roy Andersson- and that's only very broadly in the ball park?? I absolutely loved this film. The acting and style of the piece are really quite bizarre and hypnotic, but on the very edge of realism, it looks fantastic (shot clinically in 16mm Cinemascope) and the very specific (and mind boggling) use of sound, different languages and 'voice overs' (for want of better phrase) are astonishing. Once you click into what this film is doing, it's a bit like Pontypool - many many layers to the onion, metaphorically, whilst still working brilliantly as a genre piece.


Luz-2018-e1573749890179.jpg


Incredibly, this relatively brisk (70min) film was made as a graduation student piece by first time German director Tilman Singer... if you get a chance to see it, let that sink in. Nothing short of breathtaking, to be this assured and peculiar straight out of the gate as a young filmmaker . I cannot wait for whatever he does next.

The less you know about this one going in the better your experience will be, trust me.

(Just having a look around, there's currently only a German bluray out there.... I might be able to *sharify* if you are intrigued... PM me ;-)

I am getting this as we speak - but as a 1080p webrip

Stelvio Massi's 1979 Sbirro, la tua legge è lenta... la mia... no! a.k.a. Hunted City
Excellent score by Stelvio Cipriani
and starring Maurizio Merli

NW:


The opening of this film. Jesus. No messing around.

^^ And such a wonderful score (bit unusual but still trademark Morricone).

ChrisMcQueen007 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2019 8:12 pm ^^ And such a wonderful score (bit unusual but still trademark Morricone).

I fully agree, @Chris - I was convinced it was Nicolai til the Maestro's name came up. Highly quirky score, and great!